Player Quotes
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Only a few people have the background of Nick Saviano to take a player to the next level of excellence.
Nick Bollettieri -
I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.
Sepp Blatter
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He has the players too happy.
Red Auerbach -
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.
Roberto Clemente -
Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
George Archer -
I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.
Norm Sloan -
It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.
Simon Sinek -
I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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You always miss a great player, but I think the players on this team have taken a lot of pride in overcoming obstatcles when we have a player down ? not only the offensive players, but the defensive players. We were very fortunate that we played that well.
Bobby Petrino -
I definitely think moving around helped shape me and has helped me be a better player.
Charles Tillman -
The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board.
Efim Geller -
We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.
Hayden Fry -
I think that's awesome to have a former player in the GM role, somebody that not only understands the game of football but has played the game of football.
Eric Reid -
Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.
Michel Platini
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The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?
Daniel Finkelstein -
It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.
Arsene Wenger -
We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.
Mike Comrie -
We're gonna get some time to sit down individually with each player and see what their role is.
Nate Oats -
I think I was always going to be an Everton player from the day I was born. There is a certain type of player who is an Everton player.
Neville Southall -
In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.
Harvey Penick
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For a while, you could decide when you loan the player out whether he plays against you or not, and I always decided that he could play against us. But I must say I didn't get any protection from the media because when the player I loaned out scored against us, it's 'aaahhh, look at him, stupid...'
Arsene Wenger -
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Vladimir Kramnik -
I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.
David Cage -
I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.
Steve Martin